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  • Dos and Don’ts For Accompanying Victim-Survivors Through a Restorative Justice Process

    In the aftermath of a crime, a victim-survivor’s faith community is often one of the first places they turn to for support. Yet many of our parishes and ministries struggle with how to respond to victims’ complex needs for healing. As people of faith, we can be instrumental in supporting victim-survivors through restorative processes designed…

  • Find a Circle Trainer

    Circle process is a foundational restorative practice that creates the conditions to build, strengthen and repair relationships through storytelling. In ministry settings, this methodology is well suited for synodal listening, communal discernment, and attending to the wounds of trauma, harm, and conflict. Many Catholics, after learning about the principles and practices of restorative justice, wish…

  • Tips for Preaching About the Death Penalty

    This resource is designed for bishops, priests, and deacons who wish to connect the Church’s teaching against the death penalty to Scripture in a homily. In this resource you will find:

  • [Webinar] The U.S. Death Penalty in 2024: A State of the Union

    What is the status of the death penalty throughout the U.S. as we enter into 2024? Experts respond to this questions in a one-hour webinar presenting the 2024 landscape of the death penalty throughout the nation, to increase awareness of what lies ahead in the year. Featured Speakers Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, Archbishop of…

  • CMN Book List on the Death Penalty & Restorative Justice

    Download CMN’s Book List for a collection of titles that dive into issues of capital punishment and restorative justice. Featuring titles like The Death of Innocents by Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, and Harm, Healing, and Human Dignity: A Catholic Encounter with Restorative Justice, CMN’s faith formation guide. Use this list as a solo…

  • [Webinar] Growing in Restorative Practices: One Year Into the Synod on Synodality

    In January 2022, Catholic Mobilizing Network’s webinar “Five Lessons From Restorative Practices for the Synod on Synodality explored how practices from restorative justice could enrich the synod listening processes taking place in Catholic parishes and dioceses nationwide. In this webinar, Fr. David McCallum, SJ and Dr. Vanessa White illuminate the joys, hopes, sufferings and wounds…

  • [Webinar] Conversations of Hope: Ending the Death Penalty, with Sr. Helen Prejean

    For 2022 Respect Life Month, Catholic Mobilizing Network hosted a one-hour webinar featuring Sr. Helen Prejean, Ohio death row exoneree Kwame Ajamu, and Director of Prison Ministry for the Nashville Diocese Deacon James Booth. The panelists shared their perspective on the death penalty and discussed how capital punishment denies the gospel call to uphold and…

  • [Webinar] The Catholic Call to End Missouri’s Death Penalty

    This one-hour webinar was hosted on August 16, 2022 by Catholic Mobilizing Network and Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. It explores how Catholics can help in the efforts to end Missouri’s death penalty. Participants heard from a variety of voices on the brokenness of Missouri’s death penalty, including Joe Amrine — who spent…

  • [Webinar] Young Catholics Needed! The Movement to End the Death Penalty

    Calling all young Catholics! This one-hour webinar with Christina Swarns, Executive Director of The Innocence Project, explores how young people of faith can make an impact in the national movement to abolish the death penalty. Participants also hear from the winners of CMN’s 2022 Justice and Mercy Poetry Contest for Young Catholics.

  • Paths of Renewed Encounter: A Restorative Justice Engagement Guide for Catholic Communities

    Explore the foundational concepts and practical considerations for restorative justice engagement in your Catholic ministry and community.  Paths of Renewed Encounter is a brand new resource from CMN inviting individuals and groups to embrace healing approaches to harm, and injustice while reflecting on the unique ways that Catholic ministries and teachings can shepherd processes that transform relationships,…

  • Addressing the Harms of Native American Residential Boarding Schools

    Informed by relationships with Native and non-Native people who are committed to truth and healing efforts within their respective Catholic institutions, Catholic Mobilizing Network reflects on the need to learn and discern Catholic institutional and individual responses to harm committed against Indigenous peoples and ongoing reparative efforts. On May 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of…